Research Awards 2024 shortlist announced

The shortlisted entries for the 2024 Research Awards have been chosen.

The Awards celebrate excellent research that addresses real-world problems using interdisciplinary approaches, is built on partnership and collaboration and engages a wide range of audiences.

Research engagement, collaboration and impact take many forms and entries were submitted to one of four categories: External Collaboration and Innovation, Interdisciplinary Research, Public Engagement with Research and Research Impact.

Capturing the best of the University’s research output, work recognised by the judges ranges from: revitalising Ghana’s cocoa farming; safeguarding mobility for diversity via an LGBTQ+ travel tool; community-led reading initiatives in Whitley; and systems for providing healthy, sustainable food for  disadvantaged communities. Disciplines represented in the shortlist include Classics, Crop Science, Education, English Literature, Environmental Science, International Development, Law and Meteorology.

Professor Parveen Yaqoob, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation said: “We received a number of high quality entries on a broad range of topics, which made the judging panel’s job a difficult one.

"The shortlist captures the creativity and impact of research going on across the University and I am looking forward to the Awards event, when we will hear more about each of the shortlisted projects and announce the winners.”

The seven shortlisted entries are:

• Understanding Zero Budget Natural Farming in Andhra Pradesh
  Sarah Duddigan (Geography & Environmental Science) and Grady Walker (International Development)

• Communicating climate research to inspire positive action
  Richard Allan (Meteorology)

• FoodSEqual: Healthy, sustainable food systems for disadvantaged communities
  FoodSEqual team (Food & Nutritional Sciences; Agriculture, Policy and Development; Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences; Geography and Environmental Science; Built Environment)

• In the Company of Monsters: New visions, ancient myths
  Emma Aston (Classics) and Andrew Mangham (English Literature)

• LGBTQ+ travel tool: Safeguarding mobility for diversity
  Frances Hamilton and Tahlia-Rose Virdee (Law)  

• Ready to Read: Community-led reading initiatives in Whitley
  Holly Joseph and Daisy Powell (Institute of Education)

• Sustainable soil solutions: Revitalising Ghana's cocoa farming
  Andrew Daymond (Crop Science)  Tom Sizmur (Geography & Environmental Science)

The shortlisted projects will be showcased and the winner in each category will be announced at the 2024 Research Awards event on Tuesday 18 June from 1.45pm in the Meadow Suite on Whiteknights campus. An open invitation to attend the event will be sent out shortly.